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The Reluctant Queen – Sarah Beth Durst

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This is the second books in the Queens of Renthia series. Delaina has come to the throne as the last survivor of all the heirs in Aratay. And while she is young and should have many years ahead of her to reign, she finds she has contracted the False Death. When she has spells, the […]

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Long May She Reign – Ellen Emerson White

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This is the fourth book in a series about the daughter of the first woman president. I received the first one as a gift in middle school, and read the other two quite a while ago. It took me a while to track this fourth one down (and it was written quite a while after

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Siege and Storm – Leigh Bardugo

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Alina and Mal have tried to run from the Darkling, but he finds them, and brings them back to Ravka. But the Darkling isn’t aware that his allies are not all that they seem, and the privateer he has hired to bring them back to Ravka instead saves Alina and Mal for his own ends.

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Mastiff – Tamora Pierce

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This the final book of the Beka Cooper books, and it’s a doozy. She and her partner are summoned with some haste to the Summer Palace, where they find that half of the servants and guards there have been slaughtered, and the young prince has been kidnapped. Beka promises the frantic queen that she will

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Between Two Thorns – Emma Newman

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Cathy has fled her abusive family, but there’s a twist- her family lives in the Nether – between the regular world and the world of the Fae, and the families there serve the Fae. Cathy would rather live in the real world, where she won’t have an arranged marriage, and can live her own life.

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Bloodhound – Tamora Pierce

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

It’s funny – the author notes in the acknowledgements that she wasn’t sure a book about counterfeiting was going to be that interesting, but I have not read a book that had me quite on the edge of my seat as this one did in a while. Beka Cooper’s no longer a trainee in the

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Voices – Ursula K. Le Guin

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This is the second book in the Annals of the Western Shore. The first was Gifts – featuring Orrec and Gry. They figure heavily into this story as well, but it’s more Memer’s story. Memer is a siege brat in the city of Ansul – daughter of a woman of the city and one of

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The Raven King – Maggie Stiefvater

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This the final book of The Raven Cycle. Blue, Gansey, Ronan, Adam, and Noah, are absolutely in the thick of searching for Owain Glendower.   It’s now critically important, as a demon is unraveling the magical forest around the ley line where Glendower is buried. A lot happens in the book – and I’m a little

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Look for Me by Moonlight – Mary Downing Hahn

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This was just a classic 90’s YA vampire story. Cynda’s off to remote Maine to live with her father, step-mother and little half-brother, now that her mother is moving to Italy. They run an inn by the sea – an inn supposedly haunted by the ghost of a young woman who died there years ago.

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Matilda Bone – Karen Cushman

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Matilda has been brought up by the manor priest since her father, the lord’s clerk, died. But he’s been called to London, and she’s being left to stay with Peg, the bonesetter. It’s a completely different life than Matilda’s used to, and it takes some getting used to, but she learns to like the new

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